Art: Insanity in Art

The "subconscious," grand catch-all of irrational human
nature, came into literature through James Joyce, into painting
through Surrealism. The soberest writers and painters are glad of it,
reckoning dreams and fantasies and unconscious motives part of the
subject matter of art.
They agree with most people in disliking Surrealism's fakes, faddists,
exhibitionists.
They value the systematic study of the subconscious by qualified
scientists. Last week in Manhattan this respectful alliance between
artists and psychiatrists was demonstrated in the first public
exhibition of its kind yet held in the U. S.106 pictures...